puchfinnland

I will soon be at the point to prep my bike for paint.
(the bike PUCH Mistral,reynolds 531,all campy SR-9.2kgs)
Honestly the paint is in pretty good shape...it just.... the color

champagne...AKA metallic pink

the point is
I will most likely paint strip it down (save weight!)

and start over from there.
my LBS who has gone through the process many times told me there is a local guy who has painted frames for him in the past, he had 2 bikes to show and they looked good.

He said the guy charges 200€ (lets say 200 units)

other option is to paint it myself with duplicolor it will run me maybe 50 on primer,paint and clear- it is not as durable as good 2k stuff, I have done lots of can paintjobs with excelent results but it is still only enamel paint.

so the question is
how many of you have gone through a pro paintjob and how was the price and the results? would you do it again?

(In the states a beer will cost you 2 bucks, in England 2 quid, in europe 2 euros= a unit is a unit if you dont cross borders)

mike in Finland